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The Risks and Benefits of Working with Private Collections: Lessons from the COADS Project (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Nolan. Michael Shott. Eric Olson. Sidney Travis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Privately held collections are an endangered part of the archaeological record that the SAA’s "Principles of Archaeological Ethics" directs us preserve. The Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey (COADS) is undertaking the documentation of dozens of private collections in central Ohio. By September 2018 it recorded over 15,000 artifacts and added over...